After finding a new medicinal plant, a pharmaceutical company decides to determine if the plant has genes similar to those of other known medicinal plants. what would annotation of the genome of this plant allow the company to determine?

identify genes and determine their functions

Explanation:

Genome is a genetic code, which has all the genetic information of a being, and is encoded in DNA. It is the set of all the different genes found in each nucleus of a given species. With this concept, we can say that the study of the genome of a medicinal plant would allow a company to identify the genes of that plant, determine the functions of those genes and conclude if it is possible to formulate drugs from that plant and whether these drugs would be efficient.